Author: Will Sheldon, Commercial Director

Will leads the growth of Taking Root’s impact, working with our buyer, reforestation and funding partners to grow more trees with more farmers. He has a background in scaling technology and environmental solutions. Will led the marketing function at Concentra Analytics, worked as a sustainability consultant with Systemiq and has supported the growth of some the largest smallholder forest carbon projects in the world. He holds a Degree in Social Sciences from Cambridge University and is a member of the On Purpose leadership program.

Celebrating 10 years of reforestation with impact

A decade of powerful impact After another record year in 2020, Taking Root is celebrating 10…

New collaborative approaches drive natural climate solutions

Changing the climate-action game In collaboration with Natural Capital Partners and the Arbor Day Foundation Taking…

Webinar: Automating forest carbon reporting for smallholder farmers

Please note that this article contains mention of FARM-TRACE, the previous name for Taking Root’s technology…

Can we tackle the climate crisis and COVID-19 at the same time?

For the first time in history the world is facing multiple, interconnected global crises. People have…

Planting one trillion trees sounds great, but how do we do it?

2019 will go down in history as the year the world woke up to climate crisis….

The fallacy of permanence: what energy projects can learn from natural climate solutions

“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to…

Legendary rock star, Bryan Adams, plants with Taking Root

The Taking Root team became Bryan Adams’ number one fan after the Canadian singer songwriter teamed…

JOIN US – STRIKE FOR THE CLIMATE

“How Dare you?” Greta Thunburg asked of the UN’s Climate Action Summit taking place this week….

Going organic: mission impossible for smallholder farmers?

Yelsin wakes up at 5 in the morning as the sun begins to rise over the…

Can small family farms save the world?

Last year delivered a series of bleak and somber revelations into the impacts of climate change…

How we grew 1 million trees in 2018

Taking Root’s 2018 Impact: After the success of 2017 and wide-reaching publicity received by Taking Root, we are delighted…